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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3035310, member: 27"]
I watched maybe 15 minutes of the game.  There was no announcer.  There was one camera, hand held, at mid court.  There was no indication of the score, no graphics, so there were as bare bones with production as you can get.

But the picture quality was good, there was no delay and for a hand held camera, the person who filmed the game held the camera pretty steady and kept the action framed well.

The competition level looked okay.  I didn't recognize anyone except Jalen.  The Greek team appeared bigger, and certainly more physically mature.  They didn't shoot well and looked intimidated by the US bigs.  Lots of blocked shots and point blank misses for the Greeks.

I would say the opponent today was the equivalent of a D3 college team like LeMoyne.

I have no idea what the final score was but I bet the USA team outscored them something like 25-8 while I was watching.

Jalen had 8 points (a pull up jumper and two 3s) while I was watching and had a nice dime to a big as well.  He appeared to be the best player on the court by a fairly large margin.

Red looked comfortable on the sideline.  Walked around some, looked calm and relaxed.  No arguments or gesturing to the officials.  Business-like.  Thought he did a good job, looked like the kids respected him.

For what it is worth, he had them playing man to man the whole time I watched.  Pretty good man to man too.  They extended it and pressured the ball to good effect, though they were beat with simple dribble moves quite a bit.  The Greeks couldn't make easy shots inside 5 feet though and shot badly from the 3 point circle.

It looked like Jalen was the only PG on the team and things didn't run nearly as well when he was out.
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